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Bonds clearly is the focus of major-league baseballs investigation into past abuses, despite denials from Commissioner Bud Selig's office.
At the cemetery on the border of Brooklyn and Queens where Robinson is buried, admirers still leave baseballs and other mementos.
In Duyun, another city in Guizhou, workers at one Sunshine enterprise stitch together baseballs, and at another they make cloth gloves.
We threw the ball back and forth during our discussion despite my fear of baseballs (I had my nose smashed by a baseball in college).
He keeps his eyes trained on baseballs, taking anywhere from 40 to 80 swings as Brad Andress, the team's strength and conditioning coordinator, throws batting practice.
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They came to say goodbye to Rivera, who answered questions, posed for pictures and handed out autographed baseballs to Clevelanders who seemed in awe of the classy gesture.
Besides the footballs and baseballs, Leather Head recently produced a small batch of peach-basket-era laced basketballs for Converse, and he dabbled in rugby balls after an inquiry from Ralph Lauren.
Baseballs pile up at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, where visitors find Ray Chapman, a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians who was killed by a baseball in 1920.
There are more options, and in a world of attention deficits and hyperactivity, young boys would rather chase boards down snow slopes than baseballs on a diamond of grass and dirt.
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Suburban kids who play soccer do so not out of parental Europhilia, but because the unathletic ones look less ridiculous running around a soccer pitch than swinging haplessly at baseballs or desperately flinging basketballs.
For example, Little League acknowledges there was some upset in its ban being announced five days after Christmas, making a lot of shiny new bats under the tree more valuable for pounding rocks than baseballs.
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Next month, Hunt Auctions will sell off a rare 1903 World Series program, the ball Pete Rose hit for his 4, 000th career hit, and various baseballs signed by Cy Young, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Baseballs are woven throughout the plans, embedded in ironwork along the side of the facade, through terra-cotta balls adorning the top of the stadium, in stitches visible in the tile inlay on the rotunda floor and in its dangling baseball-and-bat chandelier.
The famous Spalding baseball tour of 1889 to among other places New Zealand, Ceylon, France and Egypt, where baseball players attempted to throw baseballs over the Great Pyramid, was notorious for not fostering an interest in baseball in the countries they visited.
Hample, who wrote a how-to book about snagging big league baseballs, said he caught two home runs at a game for the second time after accomplishing the feat at Baltimore's Camden Yards on drives by Seattle's Michael Saunders and the Orioles' Corey Patterson on May 13, 2010.
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